'Mont Blanc of Courmayeur' — the Italian shoulder of Mont Blanc, named for the Aosta valley town directly below it. Courmayeur itself derives from Latin curia maior ('the larger court'), referring to a medieval administrative centre.
Subsidiary summit on the south-east ridge of Mont Blanc, lying within Italy. Usually traversed as part of an ascent of Mont Blanc from the Italian side.
The Italian shoulder of Mont Blanc, sitting on the rim of the Brenva face at the head of the Peuterey ridge. It has no independent normal route: climbers reach it only as a stop on the Peuterey integral, the Brouillard ridge, or the Innominata ridge — three of the longest and most committing approaches to Mont Blanc. The first ascent is conventionally credited to the Peuterey ridge pioneers, the party of Lord Wentworth (Paul-Anton Noel King) with the Courmayeur guide Émile Rey in the 1880s, but the summit is so close to Mont Blanc proper that early traversers rarely bothered to record it as a separate ascent.
Route lines are approximate — drawn from guidebook waypoints, not GPS tracks. Don't navigate by them.
